Checklist PDF
The AI Search Visibility Checklist
6 Signals That Affect Whether AI Can Cite Your Business
A reference checklist for the structural signals that affect whether AI systems can parse, trust, and cite your business.
Reference edition. The full diagnosis stays with principal review.
What's inside
01
llms.txt Guidance File
- Does yoursite.com/llms.txt exist?
- Lists primary services?
- Links to key pages?
- Written for machines?
02
FAQ Schema (JSON-LD)
- Homepage has 3+ FAQ items?
- Service pages have FAQs?
- Natural question phrasing?
- Specific factual answers?
03
Organization & Author Schema
- Organization JSON-LD?
- Author Person with sameAs?
- BreadcrumbList on interior?
04
Passage Independence
- H2 standalone summaries?
- Sections self-contained?
- Descriptive headings?
- Quotable claims?
05
AI Crawler Directives
- AI crawlers explicitly handled?
- Indexing rules reviewed?
- Critical paths crawlable?
- Defaults checked?
06
Performance & Stability
- Mobile performance reviewed?
- Layout shifts controlled?
- Media optimized?
- Key pages stable?
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